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Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?

Subject: Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?
From: spike1@freenet.co.uk
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:02:31 GMT
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Andrew Owen <aoweninoz@yahoo.com.au> did eloquently scribble:
> Most of the Z80 based machines were CP/M boxes designed for business
> use and back then a colour display wasn't considered necessary for
> serious applications. Except for the very early machines, all the Z80
> based home computers I can think of had a colour display: Sinclair
> Spectrum (Timex), Amstrad CPC, Tandy CoCo (Dragon), MSX etc.

Tandy coco/Dragon used the 6809, iirc.
Not the z80.
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References:
- Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?
  - From: "Bill H" <bill@ts1000.us>
- Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?
  - From: "Andrew Owen" <aoweninoz@yahoo.com.au>

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